Tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis This book is one in a series of European Respiratory Monographs. Each individual issue provide a comprehensive overview of one pecific clinical area of respiratory health, communicating information about the most advanced techniques and systems required for its investigation. It provides factual and useful scientific detail, drawing on specific case studies and looking into the diagnosis and management of individual patients.

Author(s): G. B. Migliori, C. Lange
Series: European Respiratory Monograph
Publisher: European Respiratory Society
Year: 2012

Language: English
Commentary: A medium quality scan without the covers.
Pages: 267
Tags: Public Health Epidemiology Administration Medicine Pulmonary Preventive Lung

Preface

Guest Editors

Introduction

1. Microbiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a new diagnostic test for TB Vera Katalinic-Jankovic, Lucinda Furci and Da11iela Maria Cirillo

2. Epidemiology of TB Lia D'Ambrosio, Antonio Spanevello and Rosella Centis

3. Pulmonary diseases caused by non- tuberculous mycobacteria Jakko van lngen, David E. Griffith, Timothy R. Aksamit and Dirk Wagner

4. Human genetic variability and susceptibility to pulmonary TB Thorsten 1l1ye and Christian G. Meyer

5. State of the art in vaccine development against TB Tom H.M. Ottenhoff and Stefan H.E. Kaufmann

6. Prevention of TB in areas of low incidence Roland Diel and Albert ienhaus

7. Prevention of TB in areas of high incidence Ben }. Marais, H. Simon Schaaf and Dick Menzies

8. TB drug resistance in high-incidence countries Keertan Dheda, Grant Theron, Jonathan G. Peter, Greg Symons, Rodney Dawson and Paul Willcox

9. TB drug resistance in low-incidence countries Kai Kliiman, Gunar Gii11t/1er a11d Alan Altraja I

10. Diagnosis of TB: state of the art Jonathan G. Peter, Richard N. van Zyl-Smit, Claudia M. Denkinger and Madhukar Pai

11. Omics and single molecule detection: the future of TB diagnostics Graham H. Bothamley, Morten Rulnvald and Delia Goletti

12. Treatment of TB

13. Management of adverse drug events in TB therapy

14. TB in migrants

15. TB in children

16. TB as an occupational disease

17. TB in the immunocompromised host

18. The WHO strategy for TB control and elimination

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